Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman

Ping.fm is a very simple, useful service that enables you to send a message to 30+ social networks at once, using either standard e-mail, your mobile phone or popular IM services. Its simplicity apparently attracted two high-profile angel investors, according to a company blog post . The new backers are Reid Hoffman (who just became CEO of LinkedIn again) and Joi Ito . We first took note of Ping.fm in late March this year, when the service was still in private beta, and we warned it could well become merely 'a feature of a feature'. Nonetheless, the site seems to be holding its own and has attracted enough users to start having problems scaling the service.